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Le nouvel Opéra de Paris

by: Garnier, Charles, 1825-1898, architect; Librairie générale de l'Architecture et des travaux publics Ducher & Cie, publisher

Publication date: 1878

Topics: Opéra de Paris, Theater architecture, Theaters, Decoration and ornament, Architectural

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Volume: 1

Item Size: 1.1G

The atlases have title pages printed in red and black, and half title pages printed in red reading: Monographie du nouvel Opéra de Paris. Each voume has "Table des planches" indicating that folded leaves of plates in volume 1 bear 2 numbers and colored plates (chromolithographs) on single leaves in volume 2 bear 2 numbers. Plates were drawn and engraved after Garnier by various artists. Plate volume 1 includes frontispiece portrait of Charles Garnier engraved by M. Deveaux after a painting by P. Baudry, 1868

The text and the two atlases of engraved plates were issued in parts. The two plate volumes have title pages dated 1880

Text volume 2 includes index

Author's full name: Jean Louis Charles Garnier

Library's v. 1, c. 1 text includes inscription and dedication by Charles Garnier

Library's v. 1-2, c. 1 plates issued unbound in portfolio. The portfolio cover has label "Troisième fascicule" and is dated 1877

Library's v. 1-2, c. 2 plates bound with: Le nouvel Opéra de Paris / par M. Charles Garnier. Paris : Ducher et Cie, 1875 (plate vol. 1 bound with atlases 1-2, plate vol. 2 bound with atlases 3-4)